relative pronoun VS relative adverb

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relative pronoun VS relative adverb

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Dear teachers,

To which category these underlined words belong?
Which category these underlined words belong to?
(which stce is best?)

a) I don't know what to do.
b) I don't know how to do it.
c) I don't know who that man is.

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They are all conjunctives: 'what' and 'who' are pronouns; 'how' is an adverb.
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